Published on 12, July, 2020
Hey all,
Firstly, thanks for this forum and your participation, its brought me much comfort over the past few weeks. I’ve been on a journey for a couple of years, reading and exploring if I might be Autistic, and because of this forum and the positive examples many of you set, I felt confident to go ahead with an assessment. Thank you.
Secondly, I wanted to share my experience with Psychiatry UK for an ASC diagnosis. Timeline as follows:
8 Nov 2023 - Created an account and paid for a private ASC assessment
9 Nov 2023 - Received Self and Informant questionnaires and AQ-50 to complete.
15 Nov 2023 - Returned completed questionnaires and AQ-50
24 Nov 2023 - Assessment completed and diagnosed as Autistic.
Other than a couple of false starts on scheduling appointments between the 15th and 24th Nov and consultants not being available, the process was smooth and the team at Psychiatry UK were kind and caring throughout.
So they must have lied when they said this:
In the interest of fairness, we are contacting people in date order from the time that we received your referral.
On October 19th they re-opened the Right to Choose pathway, despite having patients referred 6+ months ago still waiting. But apparently private customers can still get the whole process done in 16 days, whereas NHS patients might wait 2-3 months just to be added to the system after referral.
I think it's just about money, they don't give a *** about the patients. They continue to overload themselves and increase their waiting lists.
it is.... paying customers essentially jump the que as they need to keep paying customers satisfied.this is likely why nhs free referals have to wait so long.... when a new paying customer comes along all the free nhs referals get pushed down more.